县域生态文明建设初探

县域生态文明建设对我国生态文明建设发展起到重要的推动作用,对维护生态系统平衡和保障社会经济系统的协调性具有重要意义,县域生态文明建设中要重点解决观念、规划、科技创新、发展与保护、机制和投入等方面存在的主要问题,以保障县域生态文明建设的持续、有序、健康、有效地推进。     

中部地区生态文明竞争力综合评价

本文基于中国生态文明建设政策背景与实践,探索了生态文明竞争力的内涵,通过借鉴国内外生态文明竞争力相关评价指标体系,从生态安全屏障、生态资源利用、生态环境治理、生态体系保障和生态经济支撑等方面选择了28个指标,利用熵权TOPSIS评价方法构建了中部地区生态文明竞争力评价模型,实证分析了2010-2014年中部地区的生态文明竞争力水平,从省际角度进行了横向与纵向比较分析,提出了提升中部地区生态文明竞争力水平的对策建议。     

生态文明建设国家审计评价指标体系构建研究

生态文明建设在推动我国经济社会发展进步的过程中发挥着重要作用。将生态文明建设与国家审计相结合,建立评价指标体系,能有效评价和监督我国生态文明建设的情况和效果,以指导生态文明建设的发展方向、内容和形式。通过构建两个生态文明建设国家审计指标体系,一是针对生态文明建设的国家审计治理工作,二是反映国家审计“免疫系统”功能的国家审计治理指数,为实现生态环境良好治理、保障经济社会健康安全运行提供借鉴。     

生态文明视角下保定市县域经济产业结构升级问题研究

<正>文章通过研究保定市县域产业结构演进进程中生态文明与产业结构的关系,试图找到保定市县域经济生态化产业结构调整的路径,并有针对性地提出对策和建议,希望可以为保定市县域经济产业结构调整、促进县域经济生态化建设提供实践依据。一、从理论视角论证生态文明与县域经济产业结构升级的关系将生态文明与县域经济结合,其实是遵循了人与自然和谐发展的生态经济规律。二者在农业、工业等方面有着相辅相成、协同发展的关系。     

以江西龙南县为例浅析县域生态文明建设

生态文明建设是一种崭新的文明建设,其建设的途径也是多种多样的。生态县建设是建设县域生态文明的一个重要手段,本文以龙南县为例,从生态文明建设的切入点,生态县建设的优势和制约因素,浅析其生态县建设的主要内容,从而达到生态文明建设的目的。     

城市生态文明建设综合评价——以江西11个地级市为例

本文在梳理国内外已有的生态文明建设评价指标体系的基础上,构建了江西省城市生态文明建设指标体系,综合运用熵权法和层次分析法,计算出江西省城市生态文明各指标的权重重,发现发现人均EDP、工业"三废"排放量、第三产业占GDP的比重等指标对城市生态文明建设的影响最大。在此基础上,运用线性加权综合得分模型型,计算出2008-2012年江西省11个地级市城市生态文明综合得分。结果显示:江西省城市生态文明综合得分差距较大且层次多样,地域差别比较明显。得分最低的集中在赣南,其次是赣北,而得分最高的集中在赣中,其次是赣东和赣西。但是是,随着生态保护力度的加大大,各地级市的城市生态文明综合得分差距在逐步缩小小。     

区域生态文明建设水平测评及其驱动因素研究

从经济生态化、空间绿色化、生态资本化、资源集约化、环境健康化和民生福祉化6个维度出发,构建生态文明评价指标体系,运用拉格朗日函数优化综合权重法对2013—2017年中国四大区域26个省(区)生态文明建设水平进行综合测度,并利用系统动态方程实证分析其驱动因素,结果显示:(1)中国经济生态化、生态资本化和资源集约化水平总体较低。(2)生态文明指数相对领先的省份主要集中于东部地区,广东一直处于领先位置;生态文明指数相对滞后的地区基本位于西北地区,宁夏一直处于倒数第一位置。(3)生态文明建设驱动因素存在明显的区域差异,创新能力不足是东北地区和西部地区生态文明建设的主要制约因素,政府管理和开放发展分别是东北地区和西部地区的核心驱动因素,城镇化是东部地区和中部地区的首要驱动因素。基于补短板的考量,应提升东北地区和西北地区的绿色创新能力,加快东部地区生态资源网络化、产业化步伐,强化中部地区环境治理,实现区域生态文明建设水平协同提高。     

鄂州市生态文明建设评价指标体系研究

一直以来,湖北鄂州市始终以"建设全国生态文明城市,实现伟大中国梦"为根本目标,不断加快城市生态文明建设。而这个根本目标必须依靠科学的评价体系才能达成。评价体系能够帮助城市管理者了解现状,时刻把握好生态文明建设的总体目标不偏移。本文将基于湖北省鄂州市的权威数据,从生态经济、生态环境、生态文化、生态制度等几个维度为城市生态文明建设构建一套科学严谨的评价体系,并对鄂州市的生态文明建设建言献策。     

在科学发展观指导下推进生态文明建设

建设生态文明,是对马克思主义理论的创新和发展。党的"十八大"报告把生态文明建设放在十分突出的地位。建设生态文明,符合经济、社会以及人的全面发展,是党和国家关注的重大论题,也是全面落实科学发展观的必然要求。在当前全面深化改革的时代背景下,系统总结生态文明的科学内涵,全面分析生态文明建设与科学发展观的辩证关系,深入考察在科学发展观指导下推进生态文明建设的具体路径,以期在理论和实践方面对新时期建设社会主义生态文明有所借鉴和启发。     

绿色崛起导向下江西省生态文明建设的政策路向及协调发展对策

绿色崛起赋予了新时代江西生态文明建设的新内涵,也是江西生态文明建设的重大战略举措。本文在梳理国家及江西省生态文明建设的目标、政策主张后,阐述了绿色崛起背景下江西生态文明建设的新内涵。认为江西生态文明建设还存在认识和行动误差、生态资源优势潜力未得到充分挖掘、区域发展不平衡、不协调和生态技术落后四个方面的问题,使得生态文明建设难以标本兼治。在此基础上从重引导、强宣传、努力形成"四位一体"绿色发展的共识共为;挖潜力、创品牌、打造"江西样板"典型模式;补短板、缩差距,促进江西区域生态文明协调发展以及加快技术创新、提升生态文明建设协调发展质量方面提出了相应对策。旨在为江西省探索生态文明协调发展的新路子提供借鉴。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.